REIGATE HUNDRED 



BURSTOW 



in the same year granted these lands to Thomas Crom- 

 well, when the previous act was stated to have referred 

 ' not only to the manor of Wimbledon, but also to the 

 manor of Burstow.' K A few years later Cromwell was 

 attainted, and his lands became forfeit to the Crown. 

 By this time probably part of the estate had been dis- 

 parked and tenants had settled there, for in 1 542 a 

 court with view of frankpledge, evidently an off- 

 shoot of the court at Wimbledon Manor, was held at 

 Burstow, which then included the tithings of South- 

 borough, Middleborough, and Northborough. 69 A 

 curious entry in a Court Roll occurs for the year 1 547, 

 when after the usual entries under Wimbledon it is 

 stated that at Burstow no one was amerced that year 

 causa infirmitatis. 1 " In 1590 Elizabeth granted to Sir 

 Thomas Cecil and his heirs the manor of Wimbledon 

 and ' all those our lands in Bristowe aftaj Burstowe 

 called le Parke." " Later in the same year Cecil 

 received licence to alienate the manor of Burstow to Sir 

 Thomas Shirley and his heirs." Shirley, whohad been 

 appointed Treasurer-at-War to the English army in 

 the Low Countries in 1587, had in that capacity 

 become inextricably involved in debt to the Crown, and 

 his pecuniary embarrassments grew greater as the years 

 passed on ; in 1596 it was stated that ' he owed the 

 queen more than he was worth.' " In satisfaction of 

 j8oo i it. SJ. remaining due to her, the queen 

 accepted, among other lands, this manor, which was 

 therefore conveyed to her in March 1602 by Shirley 

 and John Quarles, whom Shirley had previously 

 enfeoffed." In the following month the queen 

 granted the manor to William Bowes and others in 

 consideration of the payment by them to the Crown 

 of the above sum. 76 



These grantees were evidently trustees for Quarles, 

 to whom they conveyed the manor in 1603." It 

 remained in his possession until 1 606, in which year 

 he conveyed it to William Turner, 78 from whom it 

 passed, four years later, to Richard Infield or Innyng- 

 field. 78 The latter in 1625 made a settlement on 

 himself in tail, with contingent remainder to his bro- 

 ther and to his nephew Innyngfield Falconer, son of his 

 sister Agnes. 80 He died in 1625 and was succeeded 

 by his brother. 81 Henry and Agnes Falconer were 

 seised of the manor in i633. M It was conveyed by 

 Falconer to Edward Payne in 1 649, when the Park is 

 mentioned as still existing. 85 Richard Payne, perhaps 

 his son, was owner in 1 669." In 1697 Richard's son 

 John Payne was holding it, 86 and in 1701 settled it 

 on his intended wife, Anne Gage. 8 * 



Owing to a family dispute the manor was sold, and 

 bought by John Smith, husband of Elizabeth Smith 

 and grandson of John Payne by his first wife Blanche. 87 

 In 1743, apparently after the death of Ann and Eliza- 



KELSEY. Gules a cross 

 molint argent over all a 

 bend azure tvith three 

 plain croisei argent there- 

 in. 



beth, John Smith, with his son and various trustees, 



conveyed the manor to Walter Harris, 88 from whom 



in 1765 it passed to Daniel Hailes. 89 The latter 



conveyed in 1779 to Thomas 



Dickson, who held it as late as 



1807. It was soon afterwards 



sold by him to Henry Kelsey, 



who died in 1827, and whose 



son, of Burstow Court Manor 



(q.v.), owned the estate in 



i84i 91 and held it as a farm 



until 1887, when he died. It 



was bought from his family by 



Mr. Alfred Howard Lloyd in 



1888." 



Burstow Park is considered 

 the manor-house of Burstow 

 Court Manor, as well as of 

 Burstow Park, but is probably 



not the most ancient manor-house of the former (see 

 above). It is little more than a farmhouse. 93 



In 1328 John de Wysham received a grant of 

 free warren in his demesne lands of Burstow and 

 Home, 94 and by inquisition taken in 1332, after 

 his death, he was found to have been seised of I mes- 

 suage, 1 60 acres of land, 6 acres of meadow, and 

 22/. rent in Burstow known as the manor of RED- 

 HALL near Burstow, which he held, jointly with 

 Hawisia his wife, of John de Burstow. 95 His son 

 John de Wysham, afterwards knighted, inherited the 

 manor, and in 1370 granted it to John Pecche, 

 citizen and alderman of London. 96 In 1379 John 

 Pecche died seised of the manor, which he held of 

 Richard Burstow by fealty, and by service of ren- 

 dering thence yearly to the said Richard 42*., and by 

 suit at his court of Burstow every three weeks. His 

 son Sir William Pecche was his heir. 87 



The history of the manor during the next century 

 is not apparent. It passed, however, out of the 

 hands of the Pecches and became the property of 

 the family of Welles. Mention is made in 1447 of 

 a Henry Welles of Burstow. 88 Edward Welles was 

 lord of the manor in 1595-6," and it afterwards 

 passed to John Welles, who held it in i6i3. 100 In 

 1650 it was in the possession of Edward Payne the 

 elder and Hannah his wife, 101 and it continued to 

 be held by this family until the late i8th century. 101 

 Thomas Holies Payne, by his will, proved in May 

 1800, devised the manor of Redhall, including a 

 capital messuage or mansion-house called Redhall, and 

 a messuage called Cophall, to Sophia Elizabeth Beard 

 and her heirs for ever. 103 The said messuages, Sec., 

 were in 1 799, when the will was made, in the occu- 

 pation of himself and Richard King, and mention is 



68 Stat. of the Realm, iii, 713. 



Ct. R. (P.R.O.), bdle. 205, no. 39, 40. 



'" Ibid. bdle. 205, no. 41. 



7 1 Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. xvii, m. 37. 



" a Ibid. pt. xiv, m. 43 ; Feet of F. Surr. 

 Hil. 33 Eliz. 



7* Diet. Nat. Biog. 



7* Close, 44 Eliz. pt. xxviii ; Pat. 44 

 Eliz. pt. xxiii, m* I. 



' Ibid. ; Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 40 

 Eliz. ; Hil. 43 Eliz. ; S.P. Dom. Eliz. 

 cclxviii, 126 ; Pat. 43 Eliz. pt. xiii, m. I. 



71 Pat. 44 Eliz. pt. xxiii, m. I. 



77 Close, 45 Eliz. pt. ix. 



78 Feet of F. Surr. Hi!. 3 Jai. I. 

 7 Ibid. 7 Jai. I. 



80 RCCOT. R. Hil. 22 Ja. I, rot. 67 ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), dxxv, So. 



Ibid. 



8 " Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 9 Cha. I. 



88 MS. abtract of title. 



84 Manning and Bray, Hitr. of Surr. ii, 

 282. 5 Recov. R. Hil. gWilL III. 



88 MS. abstract of title. 



8 7 Feet of F. Surr. East. 13 Geo. I; and 

 MS. abstract of title. 



88 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 16 & 17 Geo. 

 II ; and MS. abstract of title. 



89 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 5 Geo. III. 



90 Ibid. East. 47 Geo. Ill j Manning 

 and Bray, Hist, of Surr, ii, 282 ; informa- 

 tion from Mr. A. H. Lloyd. 



179 



81 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 293. 

 M Information from Mr. A. H. Lloyd. 

 Ibid. 



94 Chart. R. 2 Edw. Ill, m. 17, no. 59. 



94 Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), 



no. 53 ; Cat. Close, 1330-3, p. 516 ; 



'333-7, P- 454- 



96 Close, 44 Edw. Ill, m. 15. 



97 Inq. p.m. 3 Ric. II, file 10, no. 54. 



98 Cal. oflnq. Hen. VII, 177. 



99 Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxlvii, 52. 



100 Feet of F. Surr. East. 1 1 Jas. I. 



101 Ibid. East. 1650. 



10 > Ibid. East. 3 Jas. II ; ibid. Mich. 3 

 Will, and Mary ; Div. Co. East. 1 1 Geo. I. 

 > P.P.C. Adderley, 393. 



